Food Safety Grants Awarded
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, enhancing its food and feed protection initiatives, awarded three one-year Food Safety and Security Monitoring grants totaling $1 million to the states of Arkansas, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The funds support cooperative agreements designed to create a national integrated food safety system through enhanced federal and state collaboration in food emergency response activities.
“We are excited to partner with these states as they perform such critical roles in ensuring food safety,” said Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of food and drugs. “The FDA is committed to investing in efforts that will better protect American consumers from food safety and food defense threats.”
The three states each received $350,000 to fund Food Emergency Response Network chemistry laboratories, which are essential to the FDA’s regulatory efforts and the grants may be used for facility upgrades, training in current food testing methodologies, and increased laboratory sample analysis capacity and other activities. [August 2009 PET AGE]
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